X Factor winner Alexandra Burke has been banned by Cheryl Cole from having a boyfriend.

The Girls Aloud star does not want the 20-year-old singer – set to be Christmas No 1 – to have any distraction from her promising music career.

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Alex revealed: “Cheryl told me to keep away from men. She wants me to focus and concentrate on music without any distractions.

“There will be no romance – I’m all about the music.

“All my ex-boyfriends want to get back together with me but it’s not going to happen. They are exes for a reason. Once I break up with someone I don’t go back with them. I don’t want anything to do with men at the moment. I don’t need any distractions.”

The young star in the making also told how she hopes winning The X Factor could help her mother, Melissa Bell, who is suffering from kidney failure and needs a transplant.

Alex said: “I don’t want people thinking I went on The X Factor just because my mum’s really, really ill and I have to get her a kidney.

“But I do want to make a career so I can get her better treatment — and I do want a better life for me and my family, that’s my main concern.